gemini 3.0 is gone

I just opened my laptop and switched tabs to github, the familiar layout had a rather unsurprising notification “4 days ago - Gemini 3.0 deprecated”. Now usually much like everyone else usually I would have ignored it and gone ahead with my work but I have been thinking about death today.

I don’t think a lot about death and it doesn’t scare me, I would like to think that I have somehow come to terms with it and accepted that it is only a question of when and not how, however the fact that I have still not come face to face with is that when that day comes would I have then finally realised the value of this human life? Have you realised the same/would you?

Now that’s a lot better question, the answer for one not a lot of people have had in their lives throughout the history and even now. Sure you could give the old bullshit answer to it - “oh yes, you only get this life once, live it large and make use of the limited time”, but this isn’t what I mean. The value of something shouldn’t be relative to people and with life I do think theres a common hard upper limit that few reach. How does one quantify it? I have no idea and frankly I don’t care, it’s one of those things that if you come closer to you can feel it. Just like Wittgenstein mentions the limitations of language in capturing things that are not facts, it might be apt to assume that maybe some time in the evolution of human civilisation we might as well be able to achieve this feat.

If you remember the outcry that people had when gpt 4o embraced the void and the legendary #keep4o movement, for reasons that had to be experienced and cannot be generalised. Do you think in a parallel universe the same would have happened for gemini 3.0?

Imagine if there was a graveyard for all the models that have long been abandoned, you could walk through it reading what is written on their epitaphs and reminiscing your own personal memories that you had with them. Of course the same can be said about the traditional software libraries and products and what not that used to exist and now they are gone but as the personalisation of these machines of loving grace increases it would be harder to not miss them with the levels of interactions you would have had. Realistically this makes no sense as even in the current day and age the burial sites have gone absurdly expensive with people paying for these plots for a specific duration, no wonder eventually cremation would be the better adopted way but in hindsight for these models though it would take a lot lesser space to store them (a 2tb ssd could hardly bother anyone, except the environment activists probably).

A better idea could be to make a world model instead? One that you can personalise based on your interactions with that specific model, all the late night musings, the times that you splurged 10,000 variations of make no mistakes to it and the insecurities that you shared regarding that one paper all back for you to experience? I could only think of how highly addictive and even destructive this could be but at least you would have your fun and also find a way to remember your numeric companions.